_Vailima Plantation_, _Nov._ 2_nd_, 1892.
MY DEAR BURLINGAME,—In the first place, I have to acknowledge receipt of
your munificent cheque for three hundred and fifty dollars. Glad you
liked the Scott voyage; rather more than I did upon the whole. As the
proofs have not turned up at all, there can be no question of returning
them, and I am therefore very much pleased to think you have arranged not
to wait. The volumes of Adams arrived along with yours of October 6th.
One of the dictionaries has also blundered home, apparently from the
Colonies; the other is still to seek. I note and sympathise with your
bewilderment as to _Falesà_. My own direct correspondence with Mr.
Baxter is now about three months in abeyance. Altogether you see how
well it would be if you could do anything to wake up the Post Office.
Not a single copy of the ‘Footnote’ has yet reached Samoa, but I hear of
one having come to its address in Hawaii. Glad to hear good news of
Stoddard.—Yours sincerely,